“We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Four Calling Birds
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Today we remember the children killed on King Herod’s orders
while
Herod’s soldiers searched for the Messiah.
Matthew 2:16-18 (New American
Standard Bible) - Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked
by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male
children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and
under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.
Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; and she refused to be comforted, because they were no more."
No comments:
Post a Comment